A great new feature would be....

[maldc]

I think a great new feature would be to be able to have editable Library Items
in Contribute. This way I could put a latest news section down the side of all
my clients pages within a site and then if i set it as editable then they could
open it up and change the news only once but then it would update the content
throughout the site.

I did try and come up with a solution with i-frames whereby a client could go
to an external page and edit their news which would then update all other pages
but it was too much of a pain to set up.

Anyone else have any thoughts or solutions for this??

Malcolm

[Arun Kumar M]

maldc wrote:

> I think a great new feature would be to be able to have editable Library Items
> in Contribute. This way I could put a latest news section down the side of all
> my clients pages within a site and then if i set it as editable then they could
> open it up and change the news only once but then it would update the content
> throughout the site.
>
> I did try and come up with a solution with i-frames whereby a client could go
> to an external page and edit their news which would then update all other pages
> but it was too much of a pain to set up.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts or solutions for this??
>
> Malcolm
>
>
>

I guess your i-frames is a best solution for this kind of things. At the
end the user has to any way edit the news page to update latest news be
it a library item or a normal web page.

i.e., create a newspage.htm

in all your client pages create an iFrame -

<IFRAME height="300"
SRC="http://www.sitename.com/directory/newspage.htm"></IFRAME>

....

To update the news page, just browse to the newspage.htm and click on
edit page and publish with changes. This is a better way.

[micdim]

Can Contribute edit iframes that have a forceframe action/javascript attached
to it. I've been trying to do that with contribute 3, but no such luck, since
the iframe keeps coming up with the page that the forceframe javascript point
too.

Any workarounds. Maybe in Contribute 4?

Thank you in Advance!
micdim